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| Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  |
| Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| It was the women’s tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| "I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes." | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
| The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | |
| Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| " . . . Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy." | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend | |
| A minute later the bailiff and four of his men rode past him on their journey back to Southampton, the other two having been chosen as grave-diggers. As they passed Alleyne saw that one of the men was wiping his sword-blade upon the mane of his horse. A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle. It was a terrible world thought he, and it was hard to know which were the most to be dreaded, the knaves or the men of the law. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The White Company | |
| The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | |
| A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her. | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | |
| "O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile." | William Shakespeare | Othello | |
| "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | |
| "I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | |
| I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | |
